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then use the lighter trick to make it not frayed.
come on guys, tricks I learned while playing ice hockey shouldn't translate this easily in a men's style forum.

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did not know that trick. thanks.

although, inevitable, all my laces snap on shabbos.

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All the more reason to hire a shabbat goy.

"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles." Attributed to a Bishop of Seville

although you can usually buy aglets (that is what the thing on the end of the lace is called).
Or carefully roll a thin strip of heavy duty packing tape around it
Or put on a bit of heat-shrink tubing and shrink it.

The packing tape method has been working great on a pair of boots where the aglet pulled off one of the laces...you can barely tell which one isn't original--just got to get it really tight on the first wrap.

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Pissing me off...my co-worker, who is kinda my boss, is all butthurt because I asked him to remove an under-performer from a project I am managing. I have been through this many times and I know I am doing the guy a favour...he just isn't up to the task and no amount of mentoring or coaching is going to change that. But the co-worker wants to be all HR guy about it.

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry spoke critical words about KISS in an interview, completely unprovoked. They should not have done that. Now I'm not going to buy their new record. Sorry if it sounds like I'm flying off the handle here, but I don't take kindly to that kind of nonsense.

If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all. John Cage

It's shocking to me that there are grown men who have never heard of using a lighter (or other heat source) to repair frayed ends.

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Yeah, I think my dad showed me that trick about 40 years ago. Of course we didn't have lighters back then and would have to rub two sticks together next to the frayed end, but kids these days and their throw away society.

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did not know that trick. thanks.
although, inevitable, all my laces snap on shabbos.

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Can you smoke cigarettes on shabbos?

Originally Posted by in stitches: as with most things, the best way around it, is to reach around. Originally Posted by patrickBooth: Since moving to New York I have used one homosexual male. Originally Posted by DerekS: raped into a coma by a robot made of broken glass and sharks?

If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all. John Cage

What kind of undergraduate class are you taking that requires a 5000 word paper? That seems bizarre to me, honestly.

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That's maybe 20 pages? As an undergrad, I had to write several in the 20-30 range. Most were upper level history classes, one for a literature class, and one for a senior capstone Econ class. (Right wing extremism in eastern Germany stemming from economic inequality during reunification, Nana Asma'u and Nigerian feminism, mental illness in artists in post Renaissance Amsterdam and Venice, Mersault and the Underground Man, and policy applications of behavioral economics).

So I'm going to guess he goes to a private liberal arts type university.

Now what kind of student waits until the last minute to write a paper that was clearly assigned at least a month previously and in all likelihood requires a great deal of research is a whole other question...the last week I get for something of that magnitude. Last day for like a 5-8 pager, yes. But there is no way that's getting done (reasonably) in 24 hours.

Good luck and don't be afraid to ask for an extension. Quite a few profs here, I think, so maybe you can pick their brain on the best way to go about getting that.